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You have 1.4TB library? That is quite a huge library. How many songs? Are they MP3s or uncompressed? Do you listen to all of it?

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Doesn't seem so huge to me. I have about the same size, mixed FLAC & mp3 (I prefer FLAC, but it isn't always available), pretty much all of it I've listened and it even lacks some considerable number of artists/albums I like. This does not include podcasts & audiobooks, I have more of them and I did not listen to all of them yet (I tend to delete audiobooks/podcasts I've listened more often than music, as probability of repeated listening is usually lower).

> Doesn't seem so huge to me.

At 176K per second of uncompressed (CD-quality, anyhow) music, 1.4TB comes to just over 100 days. Several times that figure, with compression. That's a lot of music. More unique audio data than total amount that I've listened to on repeat for...probably about the last 5 years added together.

It really depends on how much variety you have. I had more than that in 2005, discographies and high bitrate files but it amounted to roughly 1.5 TB. If that HDD hadn't died around the time Spotify and similar streaming services came out I'd like have a larger library today

Well, right, the amount of data depends on variety. In my opinion, having enough audio to listen to something different all day, every day, for an amount of time measured in years, is a large collection.

That's not saying that there aren't larger ones, that the collector would consider themselves unusual, that any value judgement should be implied, etc. Just that more than a couple months worth of unique audio data seems like "a lot" to me.

I have about 2tb of speech (podcasts, audio books, and lectures) so it might include that.

I've listened to nearly all of it.

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